Ilke Arslan, Director of Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), discusses the facility’s new Ultrafast Electron Microscope (UEM). A unique user capability among the national laboratories, the UEM combines ultrafast lasers with a modified transmission electron microscope. It allows scientists to look at nanoscale structural and chemical changes in materials at ultrafast time […]
Zinc thermal spraying of trawler hulls and vessel superstructure steel can preventing premature corrosion, extending the life of organic top coats and saving vessel owners a lot of money.
Flame Spray Technologies BV, Netherlands, released its new rGun, a rotating plasma gun that improves the capabilities of a standard plasma gun by providing continuous rotation of the attached plasma gun during the spray operation.
Global Tungsten & Powders, Towanda, Pa., streamlines its product portfolio, discontinues highly specialized thermal spray powders.
Macroroughening is usually accomplished by machining grooves or threads into the surface to be sprayed.
